3/04/2009 @ 4:00PM

In Pictures: Roaming Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone no longer graces our list of the world’s most dangerous countries, but it’s still the second most perilous place for journalists, according to a 2008 report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The West African nation finished behind Iraq and ahead of Somalia on the CPJ’s Impunity Index, compiled by taking the number of unsolved murders of journalists over the past decade and dividing by the country’s population. What better place for a Forbes reporter to spend his vacation, chasing rumors of a Hezbollah-backed diamond-smuggling operation?